i 41 ESTABLISHED 1890 f the country. Since then a survey university, Worcester Polytechnical has been in progress; and at the pres- institute, Michigan State college, Mich- nt writing 33 chapters have respond-! igan College of Mines, Michigan uni- d to a questionnaire sent out last fall. versity, Minnesota university, Missouri In some cases only the question- university, Montana State college, Ste-! faire has been filled out and return- vens institute, North Carolina State d; but in many instances the student college, Case School' of Applied naking the report has added a letter. Science, Cincinnati university, Ohio the information, discussioi and com- State university, Lehigh university, dents contained in these letters have Pennsylvania State college, Lafayette1 >een of- great interest and usefulness. college, Texas university, Virginia Apparently, this is the first Honor university, Washington university, and ystem survey of a national scope ever West Virginia university. nade. The facts it has brought to- (Continued on Page Three) 4 f) ' i i I I i t I ti ; if I '.i '1 I I. II II I IE I, c C I if !r I t ( k f 4 ARCIET E[TMMSWL HSNIANNUAL BALL DESIGNINEW COMEDY TONIGHT I -- .._- 1 I. II II I IE I, c C I if !r I t ( k f 4 1 4 IV r \ Winning Scheme In Class Competition Is "Elves Garden Party"; Plan i Picked From Group Of Twelve BITTINGERGETS PRIZE Livingstone And Lewis To Take Leads. Play Is Three Act Farce Comedy By Kaufman And Connelly TICKETS NOW ON SALE. I0 t n c s ,F v b 0 a 3 9 v }s t v v t n n t It 7 t a !t i {ti i it C c JIr 1i ii "Elves Garden Revel" was the win- "To the Ladies," a farce comedy by I ning design submitted by R. T. Bit- George Kaufman and Marc Connelly# tinger, '27A, for the annual architects will open at 8:30 o'clock tonight int May party compeition. This design the Mimes theater. Charles Living-j was chosen by the architectural so- stone, '28L, who has played a leading' ciety, and a faculty committee con- part in all of the Mimes productions sisting of Prof. Albert J. J. Rouseau, this semester, will again take the leadl Prof. W. C. Titcomb, Prof. Ernest and William E. Lewis, '29, leading1 Wilby, and Prof. Wells I. Bennett, "lady" of the Union opera, will have1 from a group of 12 schemes. Bittinger the principal female role.I will be awarded a set of architectural The play itself is a three act farce' books and a ticket to the party. Hon- comedy by the authors of the "Butter arable mention was given Wolfang and Egg Man." Settings which will be Qoetze, '30A, Dole Thompson, '27A, used in the production have all beenc and A. F. Plard, Jr., '28A. IImade in the Mimes theater workshop Elves and gnomes playing in'a fairy l and though not as extensive as thosej garden, grossly exaggerated in scale, for some of the others used this year with huge flower pots, and sundry all of the available equipment of the1 spring flowers will cover the walls. Mimes theater, including special light- Huge beetles and spiders will lurk in ing effects, will be used in the play. the tall grass. A golden spider web Besides Livingstone and Lewis, will float over the floor; deep blue sky leading parts will be taken by Leslie with twinkling stars will be seen Stewart, '27Ed., a new man to campus through the complicated geometrical dramatics, and Lyman Crane ,'29, who maze of the spider web. played the part of Dr. Hallmeier in . The orchestra will play on a huge "R. U. R." Stewart will take a femi- mushroom, with smaller mushrooms nine part. for seats. An old tree stump will The entire cast will number 14, and house the chapprons and the recep- officers of Mimes believe that great, tion committee. Instead of sitting on credit is due the company for its the floor, or on sawdust piles, as has ability to stage the show with only a been done previously, the guests this week of rehearsals. The short period year will sit upon garden snakes. of rehearsing was made necessary by. This year's lights will be clusters of the late arrival of the manuscripts and bittersweet berries and fruits. a great deal of intensive work was An effect of tiny. people dancing in necessary. / a gigantic garden i8 the aim of Bit- More than 150 of the seats for to-, tinger in presenting this scheme. This night have been reserved by Ann Ar- will be done by an exaggeration in bor High school teachers, and the salej the scale of the flowers and elves, otherwise has been large also, accord- which will dwarf the dancers. The ( ing to officers of Mimes,. who antici- colors will be harmonious, and con- pate -sell-outs for each of the five per- sist mainly of yellow and green. formances. There will be an exhibition of the Tickets are priced at 75 cents and best designs submitted in the com- I may be reserved by telephone at the1 petition, including that of Bittinger's. Union or purchased at the box office Arrangements for the exhibition have of the Mimes theater. The play will not yet been settled; however, it will be given every night this week. be given in the near future, accord-I ing to Willianr Preston, '28A, pres- ident of the architectural society. T H PALL F ALS TO PASS SENATE COIF ELECTIONS I LANSING, March 21-The capital ARE ANNOUNCED punishment bill, which has been the Imost stubborn handicap to the dis-l Elections to Coif, senior honorary !position of state legislation, finallyl society of the Law school, were an- has been delegated to the scrap heap. nounced yesterday when a list of ie The Senate judiciary committee last )ifneeti. members who received this week refused to support the Arm, honor was made public. strong-Palmer electric chair bill. A pe- The men elected are as follows: tition bearing the signature of 16 mem- Robert W. Conder, Howard L. Wah- bers was presented requesting the re- renbrock, William B. Giles, Sidney L.Ilease of the measure, but the commit-f Robins , Arthur Wood, Frederick J. tee still refused to act. Schumann, Edgar H. Ailes, James E. Indications point toward a discon-' Duffy, Arthur L. 'larding, Edgar C. tinuance of further attempts being Howbert, Richard W. Lenske, Ben- made to force the issue. As soon as jamin Namir, Edward K. Senison, the bitterness engendered by the sup-i Glenn L. Barney, Roy Weiss, Carl L. porters of the death penalty in their Whilcburch and Albert M. Stern. disappointment of the committee's action has subsided, it is believed that RAPIER PUBLISHES the assemblage will settle down to consider the opposite branch meas- CURRET , NMBERures. Further reports relative to the con- "The Rapier, an Intercollegiate Re- struction of the new prison at Jack- view," has recently published its third son are expected from Gov. Green this issue, which is being placed on sale week. The Governor submitted a spe- in the State street stores. The maga- cial message a few days ago recom- zine is a bi-monthly publication and mening part of the project to beI MUSSOLINI DEMNS ARMAMENT EQAL TO EUROPEANCOUNTRIES GENERAL MARINIS' DECLARATION FEATURES FIRST DAY OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS SEEKS PARWITH FRANCE: EnglNis Delegate Proposes Measuring Tonnage Of Ships In Relation To Their Categories4 (By Associated Press) GENEVA, March 21-Italy never will accept armaments inferior to those of any other country in Conti- nental Europe said General Marinis,' Italian delegate to the League of Na- tions preparatory commission on dis- armament, which began its session here today in search for a formulaI for a general disarmament treaty. General Marinis' declaration makes it clear that Premier Mussolini will1 insist on keeping the Italian arma-; ments on a level with those of France. i His pronouncement was the most striking feature of the first day's de-i liberations, coming as it did at a time when tension is reported between Italy and Jugo-Slavia which is report- ed friendly to France. The first day also brought the presentation by Vis-1 count Cecil of England of a complete draft of a treaty of armament reduc- fion. Paul Boncour of France also an- I nounced that later he would present a. French draft which vould differ fromI the British plan in a notable essential.; The draft introduced by Lord Cecil provides for carrying out naval limi- tations by measuring tonnage by cate- gories of ships, as favored by tl! American experts, instead of fixing the total tonnage of all warships, as advocated by the French and Italians. Ingeniously avoiding dragging in the council of the Leaue as a supervisory body, it stipulates that Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Italy, France and Japan, "or the countriesI represented in the council" may de- I cide upon measures to safeguard the peace of nations in case a signatory should violate the provisions of the disarmament treaty. General Marinis in his declaration said Italy would be wiling to acoept drastic imitation of armament if suli limitations were fairly proportional. CLASSES IN RIOT AT JOHN HOPKINS (By Associated Press) ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 21.-Ap- peals were made to Governor Ritchie tonight to call out the militia to stop a riot at the National Guard armory here between sophomores and fresh- men of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore. The governor declined to take the drastic action until other means had failed, and at 10 o'clock, two hours after the class battle had its inception every available fire en-_ gine in the city was pumping streams of water on milling sophomores out- side the armory, within which the freshmen were attempting to hold their annual class dinner. More than 30 students, it was esti- mated by police and officers of the two student classes, were hurt, four seri- ously. Most of those injured, to es- cape arrest, evaded police and hos- pitals. Three were taken to Annapo- lis emergency hospital for treatment. They were: John Grayson Pattengill, of Powsons, Md., possible fracture of the skull by a blow from a police- man's stick. Gladstone Bladenkoff, Baltimore, slashed behind the ear by a partoman's stick. Erwin A. Gordon, Baltimore, injuries to head and neck suffered in a fall down a stairway. Baldwin Street of Baltimore suffered an injury to his arm but broke away from persons whoj took him to a drug store "or tre, twE nt. The Annapolis armory, after two hours of fighting, was almost wr ci- ed. Nearly every window in the struc~t ture had been broken and the outer walls were pitted by bullets fired over the heads of the rioters by Annapolis! police in their initial attempt to stop the fight. The revolvers had no effect, I and after emptying their guns, the po- lice jumped into the fray with their sticks. YOUNG DISCUSSES REFORESTRATION "Conservation and Reconstruction" would be a more appropriate title for the present State Conservation depart- ment, said Leigh J. Young, former Gabler, '28, Elected Leader By Champion Michigan Puck Team Cornelius Gabler, '28, star defense man for two years, was elected to captain the 1927-1928 Michigan hockey team last night at a banquet cele- brating the sharing of the Conference honors with Minnesota in the season just closed. In giving the first speech of the eve- ning, Coach Elton E. Wieman, assist- ant director of intercollegiate ath- letics paid tribute to the champion-j ship puck team which brought thej eighth Big Ten championship to Mich-j igan in tpe last two years. He went further to laud the men for their up- hill fight which carried them to a tie with Minnesota when after losing two of their first three Conference games the team won five straight contests, all of them by one goal. Coach Wie- man also remarked of the great growth of minor sports at Michigan and said that Michigan is now knownj equally well in this field as in that ofj major sport competition. He also an- nounced that gold watch charms in the1 form of pucks with cross sticks wouldj be given to the team. Dr. Joseph E. Barss. Varsity coach for five years, lauded the team as the best ever to represent Michigan. "Any team that can win five games inI eight days, all by a single goal, an.d three of them in overtime periods must be rated a great team," the coach stated. This is Coach Barss' last year at Michigan and in addition to his absence next year's team will be without the services of five of this season's nine letter men, and two, AMA winners. Besides Steve Jones, re-; tiring captain, Hooper, Larson, Sibil- sky, and Comb are the letter men who are seniors. Two 'of the AMA men, Gomberg and Denton will also be lost. As a token of appreciation of his services to hockey, the team presented a cigarette case to Coach Barss. Relation Of Oxygen To The Treatment Of Pituemonia Is Dealt With By litedical Society Speaker PHI IA SIGMA Will,! ISHANGHAI ISStE'N FSRE FIGTIN AN fMEROUS RIOTS1 FOREIGN SEgTIONIS I.NVADED British Arn'ored Cars And Soldiers Are Fired Upon W~hile Shells Land In International Settlement BULLETIN (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Barcth 21.-Soviet Russia rejoiced today over the fall oil Shanghai. Government wireless stations flashed to every corner of the Soviet union the news that the "world citadel of lpiperialism" had captivated to the nationalists. Demonstrations were organized by factory workers and government employes to celebrate the event. Moscow newspapers published extra editions telling of the capture of China's greatest port. Groups of people gathered on the street corners to discuss the momentous news, which the Bolsheviks regard as meaning the definite triumph of the Chinese revolution. SHANGHAI, March 21.-The native city of Shanghai, China's greatest port and most important trade city, which fell into the hands of the Nationalists this morning, was seething tonight with bitter street fighting and turbulent riots. Sitting on the leg of the boiling cauldron and guarding the 37,000 inhabitants of the international settlement, were 15,oo foreign protective forces, including 1,500 United States marines, backed by the big guns of the large international fleet in the Whangtoo river ENDS LECTURE SERIES ji 111 L I i llI i LI U11I National Frosh Scholastic Fraternitys To hold Annual Organization Banquet At Union Tonight j LITTLE WILL SPEAK Forty-eight freshmen from the lit- erary, engineering, pharmacy, and architectural colleges will be initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh-! man scholastic fraternity for men at the annual banquet of the organiza- tion tonight at the Union. . President Clarence Cook Little will deliver the principal address of the banquet. Dean John R. Effinger of the literary college, and Dean George W. Patterson of the engineering col- lege will also speak briefly. J. A. Bursley, dean of students, wil act asf toastmaster. All are honorary mem- bers of. the organization. All freshmen with a scolastic aver- age equal to half "A" and half "B"' with a minimum of 11 hours work, i carried either for the first semester of their first year or the entire year en- I I titles them to membership in the fra- ternity. Advanced hours credit and credit transfers, however, are disre- garded in making the selections for memberships. The fraternity was founded by Thomas Arkle Clark, dean of men of the University of Illinois. Initiation ceremonies will begin at; 4:30 o'clock and the banquet -wiil take I place at 6:15 o'clock. k RADIO FREQUENCY WAVESIS NATURE; OF STUDENT TALKI Assisted by a model illustrating the Respiration with its various dis- orders, and the relation of oxygen to the treatment of pneumonia cases' in particular, formed the basis of a talk last night in Natural Science auditorium by Dr. Carl A. L. Buiger, of the Rockefeller Institute for med- ical research. Dr. Buiger's lecture was the fourth and last of a series which Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical so- ciety, have sponsored throughout the year, in an attempt to interest those who are outside the field of medicine and at the same time enlighten those in the faculty and student body of the Medical school. The speake;'s have always been men who are prominent in some one field of endeavor, and who have a special message. Dr. Buiger's topic was "Disorders of Respiration: Clinical and Experi- mental Studies," and the talk consist- ed for the most part of delineation of various experimens with oxygen and their ultimate effect on the treatment of disease. He spoke at length con- cerning the beginnings of respiratory study, from the old beliefs which held the heart to be the center of animal heat, to the developments of The 17th century, when James Boyle-founder of Boyle's law-first saw the analogy between breathing and the burning of a candle. First attempts at artifi- cial respiration were described, and Dr. Buiger detailed the work of Johnj Mayow of Oxford and of Joseph Priestley, and in conclusion lauded Lavoisier for putting the various dis- coveries together for the most prac- tical good. Details were given regarding the trip made by several modern doctors and scientists to Peru, where a labor- atory was set up in the tops of the Andes. 16,000 feet above sea level, for the purpose of study of oxygen :.ecre- Several times today the foreign set- tlement felt reverberations of the chaos reigning in the native city, but tonight it was very quiet with its residents obeying the warning to re- main indoors. One of the most serious of the day's incidents occurred tonight when a band of Chinese .soldiers, assumably attached to the retreating northern army, brokp through the barrier to the north of the international settle- me t and began looting. Two British armored cars sped to the scene in respone to calls from the police. Lieutenant Newman, Corporal Ains- lee, and two British soldiers were wounded, although not seriously, by machine gun fire which was directed at the first car. The second car towed the leading one away under heavy fire, at the sime time returning the fusilade. Americans Patrol Mill Districts Soon after the vanguard of the Can- tont-se army had entered the native city this morning, the municipal coun- cil declared a state of emergency and landing parties of all nationalities represented in the Shanghai naval concentration, including 1500 Marines, disembarked. The Americans are patrolling the northern and western mill districts where trouble is likely to develop because of the general strike. The marines were in full equipment including metal helmets and machine guns. The situation created by the retreat of the northern group and the advance of the southerners was one of the greatest gravity for the foreign pop- ulation and its defenders. With a gen- eral strike effective and the streets filled with truculent natives, the po- sition of the international settlement was fraught with danger. Sniping and fighting between Brit- ish and Chinese troops-possibly northerns-resulted in, the death of two British bunjabi soldiers and the wounding of ten other soldiers and police. There were no reports tonight that Americans had been involved in the fightin " Situation Is Chaotic Although the international settle- ment was ,uiet tonight after a day of 'turbulence, the situation in the native city was chaotic. The advance guards of the Nationalists, consisting of plain clothes forces, who invaded the city this morning, were fought by the retreating Cantonese and the White Russians which created a reign of terror which continued tonight. BULLETIN (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI ,March 21.-E vacn - ation of all foreign women and children still remaining in Nank- ing began at) daylight today be- cause of the close approach of fighting between the Nationalists and northern forces and the prospect of disturbances. LONDON, March 21.-An American detachment of volunteers in Shanghai prevented 500 postal employees from mraching through the interatina settlement today to the Cahpei native district to participate in the fighting there . s. cn r3;nnth totha ynAn i f s; : :, 'l I: i' ii properties of high frequency in the tion. Here various tests and observa- electric flow of wires, Robert R. tions were made upon the iatlver and Swain, grad., spoke on "Radio Frequ- upon each other. Afterwa ds thO results ency Measurements" before a meet- were tabulated and clinical applica- ing of the student branch of the Ame- tion was made in regard to pneumonia rican Institute of Electrical Engineers symptoms. yesterday afternoon in Natural Science Dr. Buiger described the apparatus auditorium. which is now used in the laboratories Swain showed how the wave length where he is associated, in particular of an electric wave might be meas- I special oxygen chambers for the ured by the use of an ordinary yard- treatment of pneumonic patients, the stick. The process as the lecturer ex- access to which is made through a n. p +tiest.avsn ,+,-.,.;form of lock so -as to prevent the ! R pianea I,ISLo nave an naca or showing that the transmission line is responding to that wave; the distance between the closed or short circuited end and the indicator is measured by simple linear measurement and the wave length computed by use of the formula. Because the velocity of the wave on the wire and the velocity of the wave in free space are the same,l t;h ms .-,nrs ePnzt0; Nin airme nro- passage of air from the outside. In conclusion the speaker stated that the studies and results of the oxygen experiments were not being put forward as another specifically curative measure, but instead as an aid until such time as the patient is more able to fight for his own condi- tion. The lecture was accompanied by lantern slides throughout, showing